(CBS News) Former Vice President Mike Pence told a crowd of Republican activists in New Hampshire on Thursday night that he doesn’t know whether he and former President Trump will “ever see eye-to-eye” about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Pence was at the Capitol overseeing the counting of the Electoral College votes when the mob of angry Trump supporters overran the Capitol, and he had to be evacuated from the Senate chamber.
“January 6 was a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol, but thanks to the swift action of the Capitol Police and federal law enforcement, violence was quelled, the Capitol was secured and that same day we reconvened the Congress and did our duty under the Constitution and the laws of the United States,” Pence said Thursday. “President Trump and I have spoken many times since we’ve left office and I don’t know if we’ll ever see eye-to-eye on that day, but I will always be proud of what we accomplished for the American people over the last four years.”